Daytona After a tough start to the weekend which had the team completing
only four laps of the first practice on Thursday and an early race
transmission change a near top ten finish is a just reward. On Thursday
the team put more miles on the truck and trailer with the car in the back
headed to the body shop than they did with it on the track. An all night
thrash by the team to repair right rear crash damage had the car back at
the track in time for the 9:00 a.m. practice on Friday. The car showed
the same speed it displayed in the Roar Before The 24 practice earlier in
the month upon its resurrection.

When the 44 car field took the green, rain covered the greater Daytona
Beach area. Martin Ragginger raged from his 21st starting position in
wet conditions to put the car in the lead just 63 laps into the race.
Dominik Farnbacher took over the controls and continued to front the GT
field until lap 111 when he reported second gear had gone. The team
elected to change the gearbox 26 laps later, sending them down the timing
sheet. From that point to the end of the race at 3:30 p.m. today the
Porsche ran near flawlessly. Claudio Burtin, Mitch Pagerey and Jack
Baldwin handled the bulk of Sunday's running to finish out the event.

"Through the night the car got a little beat-up underneath," Burtin
said. "The splitter on the front is missing, the shocks in the back are
a little off, but she ran right to the end. Typical of what happens
throughout a 24 hour race. Everyone did a good job to comeback and run
consistent laps after our garage time. We were able to comeback from the
transmission change and make a respectable showing with a 12th place."

"My first Rolex 24 hour race was awesome," Pagerey said. "The real
hero's here is the Alex Job crew. We worked them a little too hard this
weekend on Thursday and again early last night. These guys made it easy
for me. I am pleased with the lap times I ran. It would have been nice
if the gearbox held up, we would have been on the lead lap at the end.
We had two really fast guys and I, Jack and Claudio all matched up well.
The level of performance here is on a whole different level. I tested
myself. It is a triumph for me, a really good day."

"We finished and that is good," Baldwin said. "This is the best Porsche
I have ever driven here at Daytona. It is a great team and a really good
effort. I am happy with the way this group came together. We had the
problem with the gearbox last night, I am not sure how to prevent that,
it was a main shaft. We did everything we really could do to be
successful this weekend. You need preparation, we had that, and we just
needed the luck aspect. You have to have the luck fall into your plan.
If you are going to win the race, you cannot take the car to the garage.
If you have to get the garage for repairs you won't be on the podium.
The reality is that you have to be near perfect to win it."

"If we take away what happened in practice and the transmission change
our weekend might have been a winner," Ragginger said. "I am not sure we
had a pole car in qualifying, but I think the fastest Porsche, which was
our goal. We showed in the race that our car was really good and I think
the Mazda would have been chasing us. But that is not the way it
happened. Every car, except the two winners, can say this. That is
motorsport and you have to accept it. Alex's team is the best I have
driven with in America. I would like to try it again with them next
year."

"You have to run perfect here to win," Farnbacher said. "The winning DP
and GT cars today never went back to the garage and really just took,
gas, oil and a fresh driver. The level of teams and drivers here is so
good, there can't be any mistakes. You have to assemble the complete
package which includes the car, drivers, crew and a lot of luck. For
everything we went through this weekend, 12th is not so bad."

"This is a tough race," Alex Job, team owner said. "To win you have to
have a near perfect run, which means not going back to the garage. We
rebuilt the transmission after the test, but it broke an input shaft.
That part is usually the last one in the gearbox that you think would
go. After that we were consistently the fastest GT car on the track. It
is just impossible to makeup over 40 laps on a quality field like this
one. I had hoped after our Thursday practice accident that we left our
bad luck at the body shop. It was nice to take the checker near the top
ten after the weekend the guys went through."